Welcome to JStartup news, a place for news people to discuss, rate, and share news and commentary about journalism startups, new business models for news, hacker journalism and anything else that falls along these lines.
JStartup has a twitter account at http://twitter.com/jstartupnews. The account will automatically tweet out the latest submissions to this site. If we get swamped with submissions, I can always change it.
Anyone can vote on, discuss or post to J-Startup News. No registration required. By creating an account, though, you can help people identify your words with who you are. You can also accumulate karma points based on how people rate your posts and comments.
The template for JStartup news is a site called Hacker News. It's a social news forum very similar to this one, for technologists, programmers and entrepreneurs. Over the last 2 years it's grown into a buzzing hub of smart people having smart discussions about important topics. My hope is that JStartup News might become something like that for news people who are interested in new forms of journalism, business models and taking the entrepreneurial path. I hope this becomes a place where startups announce their projects, ask for help and post job openings.
Another handy thing that JStartup News will do is create a central place for the best news from all the folks covering the industry on blogs and pro sites. For the last few months I'd been wishing for a site like this to give me all the best links right now in one place. I am morally opposed to RSS readers so social news sites are how I find stuff I want to read. There wasn't one for news people who want to read about "the new news." So now we've got one.
My name is Brad Flora. I'm a journalist working on a startup news aggregator and blog network in Chicago called The Windy Citizen. You can reach me at windycitizen at gmail.com or on twitter at @bradflora.
As a publisher/creator, I support myself from online advertising. When I read something in a feed reader, I'm getting that info without "paying" for it by being exposed to the advertising.
I can't run ads on my own startup if I'm not willing to look at the ads on other people's sites. It's the same reason I don't and won't run an ad blocker script in my browser.
I'd add that I enjoy seeing the actual designs of the site's too. Reading everything in one place seems so boring.
Hey, just dont put the full text into the feed! I keep tabs on tons of sites that produce their own content, as well as aggregate or link to others by RSS, and usually find myself clicking the links, visiting their actual websites in their full glory and sometimes, may even find myself checking out an ad too. ;)
anyway, you offer RSS for this site, not much to discuss really. if you dont want to use it yourself, then no reason to argue otherwise!
Welcome to JStartup news, a place for news people to discuss, rate, and share news and commentary about journalism startups, new business models for news, hacker journalism and anything else that falls along these lines.
JStartup has a twitter account at http://twitter.com/jstartupnews. The account will automatically tweet out the latest submissions to this site. If we get swamped with submissions, I can always change it.
Anyone can vote on, discuss or post to J-Startup News. No registration required. By creating an account, though, you can help people identify your words with who you are. You can also accumulate karma points based on how people rate your posts and comments.
The template for JStartup news is a site called Hacker News. It's a social news forum very similar to this one, for technologists, programmers and entrepreneurs. Over the last 2 years it's grown into a buzzing hub of smart people having smart discussions about important topics. My hope is that JStartup News might become something like that for news people who are interested in new forms of journalism, business models and taking the entrepreneurial path. I hope this becomes a place where startups announce their projects, ask for help and post job openings.
Another handy thing that JStartup News will do is create a central place for the best news from all the folks covering the industry on blogs and pro sites. For the last few months I'd been wishing for a site like this to give me all the best links right now in one place. I am morally opposed to RSS readers so social news sites are how I find stuff I want to read. There wasn't one for news people who want to read about "the new news." So now we've got one.
My name is Brad Flora. I'm a journalist working on a startup news aggregator and blog network in Chicago called The Windy Citizen. You can reach me at windycitizen at gmail.com or on twitter at @bradflora.
Wow, can you flesh out your moral opposition to RSS readers?
As a publisher/creator, I support myself from online advertising. When I read something in a feed reader, I'm getting that info without "paying" for it by being exposed to the advertising.
I can't run ads on my own startup if I'm not willing to look at the ads on other people's sites. It's the same reason I don't and won't run an ad blocker script in my browser.
I'd add that I enjoy seeing the actual designs of the site's too. Reading everything in one place seems so boring.
Hey, just dont put the full text into the feed! I keep tabs on tons of sites that produce their own content, as well as aggregate or link to others by RSS, and usually find myself clicking the links, visiting their actual websites in their full glory and sometimes, may even find myself checking out an ad too. ;)
anyway, you offer RSS for this site, not much to discuss really. if you dont want to use it yourself, then no reason to argue otherwise!
Welcome. And I agree with your points. I just don't like or want to get my news that way. Others are welcome to.